Motor vehicles / cars crashing into buildings

Down with fences. Boo.

'wood skewers car'
Wouldn't have happened if the fence was wearing high vis and had a number plate.
Wanton and furious fencing just isn't enough!! We need more laws.

If you take out the brief mention of the fact that the car hit the fence in the standfirst, the article really does read as if the fence just attacked the car.

This sounds like one of the many crashes involving young people after a night out, although it may of course have happened on the way to wherever they were going to go out to. Such crashes are frequently fatal, so in that respect they will undoubtedly have been lucky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-43815325

Driver crashes car in to home killing woman inside. Grim.

Oh no, that's horrible.

It's always amazing how when vehicles crash into buildings it's the building occupants who get hurt. You'd think brick walls would be tougher than cars/vans.

Vehicles designed to protect the occupants at all costs in high energy impacts. Houses...not so much.

From the pictures it looks like the driver ploughed the van in to what was a converted garage.

Yes, that's about the size of it, the combination of that kind of engineering in a car and probably a not-too-solid wall.

The picture with this article was either taken after the car had been moved or 'a wall near to City of London police station' is code for 'the City of London police station'.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bishopsgate-car-crash-black-toyota-prius-ploughs-into-city-of-london-police-station-a3819916.html

No news on whether the injured man was in the car or hit while walking along the footway.

'Driver' statue nearly taken out by minivan at Puyallup post office: bit.ly/2L3B7zR pic.twitter.com/wWBE5XTtdm

https://twitter.com/komonews/status/1016571470942629888

Vehicle has struck the bridge on Mortlake Road. Please avoid the area where possible. (img: @rosandamcgrath) @Jackie_Travel @TfL pic.twitter.com/i7r8bVlkTf

https://twitter.com/MPSKew/status/1019320609040470017

That doesn't look as if the building was struck.

Picture:

Building or structure? You decide.

Something was built.
It was hit by a motor vehicle.
That's close enough.

Well, it's not me getting into trouble with @Fox this time. :)

building - a structure with roof and walls

I can bivvy under that bridge because it has a roof and it has walls, so building it is (albeit a little breezier than a bus stop).

Thanks OED. #hippyisalwaysright

It's not my battle to fight.

I was the first one to post a bridge in this thread.

See the previous discussion seven million pages back. :)

(As if you'd fit under that bridge.)

Can we also argue that the vehicle itself didn't actually hit the building/structure?

Your first post, presumably edited after the great bridge is a building battle??
"This thread also includes lorries and buses crashing into bridges, as bridges are buildings."

"I think a bridge is a structure. Wikipedia says:

A building or (Edifice), is a man-made structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.

Dictionary definitions variously define a building as something for human habitation or use, or a structure with a roof and walls.

To me a building should have a roof and walls, at least of sorts. I concede your point on the shopfront though."

1. "I think" No committed enough. Lost the argument already
   
2. "Wikipedia says" Hahahaha
   
3. I can just change the thread title to whatever I want anyway so #hippyisalwaysright
   

Ah, but which vehicle? Is a crane even a vehicle? OMG Metadefinitions!

ahem articulated boom lift

#notacrane

bigshape

Wait, has hippy changed his username?

"A large, tall machine used for moving heavy objects by suspending them from a projecting arm or beam."

"projecting arm" = "boom"
"suspending" = lift

Thanks again OED. Love your work.